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On the marathon s finish line right there, then draped it in a team jersey that said boston strong. tomorrow, tens of thousands of runners will pound the pavement in new york city at that marathon. alexandra steel has a look at the forecast. reporter: hi, fred. well, 45,000 people running in the new york marathon, and it will be a cold start tomorrow morning. 34 degree, kind of wake-up time. and then marathon, we re going to see 46 degrees by about 9:40, 10:40 in that period. we re going to see temperatures stay in the 40s and some very strong winds as well. so cold and breezy. we re going to see highs only at 49 for the afternoon. so a chilly marathon. fred? all right. alexandra steele, thanks so much. all the best to those who are going to be running. all right. back to boston next. our rachel nichols talks to one player about what does victory, the world series victory, mean to the people of boston and to the players? ....
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Explosion, then another near the finish line at the boston marathon. if you re just joining us, we re following breaking news this hour. two people are dead, more than 100 reportedly injured in what is clearly a terrorist attack at a sporting event followed around the world. we re standing by, once again, for remarks by president obama. he s getting ready to go into the white house briefing room. he ll be speaking within the next eight or nine minutes. we ll have live coverage standing by. you ll hear from the president. he s been updated by the fbi director and the secretary of homeland security. the twin bombings happened a little over three hours ago. the area was packed with tens of thousands of runners and spectators, but now it s a disaster area. it s filled with wreckage and stained with blood. boston police are scrambling to try to figure out who s behind these bombings. they tell us no suspects have been arrested or are in custody, although they are questioning ....
Presence already, police and firefighters and emergency crews at the finish line of the marathon right now anyway, all of those crews have been dispatched to cover what happened. we re seeing live video now of the finish line. and you can see as this story unfolds, people trying to figure out where this happened. what is impacted. we know that it is across the street from the boston public library. you re at the library right now. this is definitely the vicinity of where whatever happened has happened. you can imagine the police and firefighters on the scene right now are trying to understand what it is that has just happened at the end of the finish line. this is a place where ordinarily, tens of thousands of runners would be coming across the finish line. you can see the area of those bleachers has cleared out. janet woo who witnessed this or was a witness to this event said ....
Handling those big crowds. crowd control and everything else. stop lights. brian: people dying of thirst other runners on mile 13. here is gatorade, power bar. steve: putting the interest of tens of thousands of runners ahead of 8 million people but he did apparently the light went on in his head and even though i think virtually every other politician in new york city said it s a dumb idea, he said the show should not go on. do you think they would have run the new orleans marathon the week of katrina? right. i don t think so. steve: of course not. gretchen: rest of the headlines for saturday. president obama ordering the military to send extra gallons of fuel to new york and in the wake of seand. gas shortages unless people panicked. gas will be rationed starting at noon people with license plates ending in odd number will only be able to buy gas. ....